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True Friends of Education in Macedonia

Posted on April 14, 2017 by John Connell

Every now and again, I meet some special people who remind me in the most delightful of ways why I have spent the greater part of my life involved in education....

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Professional Self-Reflection: teachers as philosophers

Posted on September 15, 2016 by John Connell

This post belongs to an occasional series on teacher professional development. Previous posts include The Reflective Teacher as Reflective Learner and Teacher P...

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Books That Made Me An Educator: Seymour Papert, Mindstorms, Logo & EdTech

Posted on August 1, 2016 by John Connell

This is the fourth in an occasional series of posts highlighting some of the books that led me into education or that have greatly influenced me as an educator ...

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Education: confronting the confusion of tongues

Posted on July 21, 2016 by John Connell

I’m sure that my Christian and Jewish friends see it differently, but from my secular and humanist perspective, the biblical story of the Tower of Babel i...

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Play, Neoteny & Convivial Learning

Posted on July 17, 2016 by John Connell

A number of years ago, I gave a talk entitled ‘The Joy of Learning’ to the Australian College of Educators in the impressive setting of Geelong Coll...

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Teacher Professional Development in the UK: North and South

Posted on July 12, 2016 by John Connell

While geopolitically, England and Scotland appear to be on quite different trajectories after the Brexit referendum, at least we seem to be of one mind when it ...

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The Guardian Takes Sugata Mitra to Task…

Posted on July 4, 2016 by John Connell

…..and gets it completely wrong! Peter Wilby, whose Guardian writings on education I usually have some respect for, seems to fall heavily into the trap of...

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Jerome Bruner on Pedagogy

Posted on June 9, 2016 by John Connell

Pedagogical theory is not only technical but cultural, ideological and political. If it is to have any impact, it must be self-consciously all of these. So wrot...

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The Reflective Teacher as Reflective Learner

Posted on May 15, 2016 by John Connell

The teacher has a place of honour in human history; there is an inherent nobility in teaching that persists even today when perhaps the teacher’s true wor...

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Putting the Makar in the Maker Movement

Posted on April 14, 2016 by John Connell

The makar has been an exalted component of Scottish literature and culture for more than 600 years. The makars were the makers of poems, the ancient poets and b...

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